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I named my marketing/communications consulting firm “metta world” because I believe in the power of metta – loving | kindness -- to create, change and transform...
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3 defining moments in my childhood:
1. Reading Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good Very Bad Day – instilled in me a strong, though still unmet, desire to go to Australia. And the power of cool sneakers.
2. 1975 World Series—the image of Carlton Fisk’s jubilant arms outstretched; and the knowledge that losing with passion and grace can prove more meaningful than winning…
3. 1986 World Series – I am grateful to Bill Buckner, for reminding me that no matter what I was going through, it could be worse…and for teaching me compassion…not that I felt that at the time!
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A quote that thinking of Shopflick made me think of, from Marcel Proust, Remembrance of Things Past: ... automatically, worn out by the gloomy day and by the perspective of a sad tomorrow, I put in my mouth a spoonful of tea in which I had softened a piece of the madeleine.... A delicious pleasure overtook me, isolated, disconnected from any idea about its cause. It immediately made life’s vicissitudes indifferent to me, life’s disasters became innocuous, its brevity illusory, in the same way that love operates, filling me with a precious essence: or, rather, this essence was not in me, it was me.
